Let Us Now Celebrate "Don'tcha Just Know It" by Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns

At some point I'll learn that threads popping up for ancient people generally means death. It was the first Paul Gambaccini Top 200 book that got me to buy this around 1980, one of the first imports I ever bought:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbMtDvPR3yrDPelvmY6BUqHvwOv_CSaGN95Q&usqp=CAU

I really had no idea he was still alive.

First thing I would have consciously heard from him, either original or a cover, was Aerosmith doing "Rockin' Pneumonia" for the Less Than Zero soundtrack back in late 1987 -- lead track on the album IIRC! Given Aerosmith had started the slow descent into cheese by then, it was a nice little moment of them remembering why they did what they did to start with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1JgH-5BmY

YouTube the one internet thing I want to live forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gdDubu1L2Q